War crimes in Afghanistan, but the whistleblower goes to jail | Al Jazeera Newsfeed

An Australian court has jailed the whistleblower who exposed alleged war crimes committed in Afghanistan by members of the country’s most elite regiment.
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[@billinsf88]

No wonder Julian Assange, an Australian citizen, is allowed to be prosecuted by Australian “Allies”.

[@LittleBigMediaCo]

Surely you're not referring to the 'allies' who refuse to sign up to the ICC, for fear of how they will be charged?

[@rafaelperez8821]

You need to realise that here in Australia we are controlled by Washington. We vote for a PM and finish up with Washington masters. But we let our politicians kowtow to the US.

[@WesternAustraliaNowAndThen]

Australia has always taken its orders from the USA, it is disgusting.

[@rusthog]

There's bipartisan Australian support for Assange's release, it's only because the US simply refuses to do so that he isn't free.

[@robbrewer2036]

Ausmerica that's us.

[@sbeast64]

Respect to the whistleblower for having a conscience and for speaking the truth. And the people who sentenced him should ashamed for being corrupted cowardly war criminals!

[@OZTutoh]

I wonder what would happen if an Afghan blew the whistle on the Taliban?

[@ericm4426]

​@@OZTutohTaliban is not what you think they are

[@ishaansharma654]

​@@OZTutohit would sound out your mother's kazoo, cluck cluck chicken

[@OZTutoh]

Wow, my response deleted, even though it was factual. Al Jazeera at their best.

[@ManiacMarkings]

Every Man has his price . Theres massive amounts of money at stake Everyone was paid off to close the lid on it .

[@MegaBeaumont]

Also the crimes of US, UK, France soldiers on the Afghans .

[@miloslavski6149]

only afghan soldiers are allowed to commit crimes

[@666dualsport]

rubbish

[@miloslavski6149]

only afghan soldiers are allowed to commit crimes

[@ManiacMarkings]

@@666dualsport I’ll fight ya if ya want

[@yugimotobutjacked3231]

@@666dualsport Come out Ye Black and Tans, come and fight me like a Man! Show your wife how you won medals in Afghanistan!

[@PaulinAsia_]

The crimes are not punished, the person who exposed the crimes is. Justice in Australia

[@pinkdiamonds9137]

I’ve seen your comments on a lot of articles about Gaza and now this; you are always SO spot on, sir! 👏🏻

[@brittneyihrig4270]

I'm Australian, and I want the whole world to know about these war crimes! We should be held in an international court, as should any war crime perpetrator!

[@ShatteringIllusions1]

I wrote to the prosecutors at the ICC and never heard back from them

[@philmckrakin6752]

​@@ShatteringIllusions1I've emailed them too and haven't heard back.

[@ShatteringIllusions1]

@@philmckrakin6752 Thanks for the effort

[@philmckrakin6752]

@@ShatteringIllusions1 open to ideas if you have any? There's many people should be in prison over this and David McBride isn't one of them.

[@mostawesomedudeever1]

Guess what, at the top they're all friends, no one is going to jail or an international court.

[@ikram11003]

Shame on Australia

[@brock2364]

Shame on Islam . We don’t want that cult in Australia

[@IshratLubna]

Did not expect that from Australia too. Shame

[@elephantintheroom5678]

I'm Australian, and they've made me feel dreadfully ashamed! It makes me so angry, because I wouldn't approve any of these savage cruelties and injustices, yet the people in charge do. Nowadays I won't vote for either of the major parties; I vote for the Greens now, to try and limit the others' corrupt power.

[@IshratLubna]

@@elephantintheroom5678 thanks

[@elephantintheroom5678]

@@IshratLubna 🙏

[@UnacceptableViews]

@@elephantintheroom5678 you should be ashamed for voting greens.. they are just vote collectors for labor..

[@m.e.zz.e.m6546]

America's mistress country what do you expect.

[@artemisqueen2]

Shame on Australia for these despicable acts against innocent civilians and shame on the government for punishing a whistleblower who revealed these barbaric crimes.

[@maxrockatanksyOG]

Yeah...Let's not forget about Canada & the Yanks for their unreported war crimes...

[@rowdy5697]

Allegations, that's all they are at this stage. Taking the word of the enemy who are seeking compensation. Yeah right.

[@plexyglass429]

You can also thank america, they are the ones who ordered the sentence to be given

[@annpeerkat2020]

@@rowdy5697 you ignore video evidence?

[@ShatteringIllusions1]

@@rowdy5697 What about the letters written by members of SASR themselves, reporting war crimes?

[@cynicalcamel6143]

yeah what they did to McBride is frankly criminal

[@Harvey-tj2sg]

This is F*d up beyond belief. Major injustice.

[@bashirzaid6971]

Its the WESTERN policy(included USA, FRANCE GERMANY, ISRAEL, AUSTRIALIA) to do such barbaric acts and then point finger at the natives and says they aren't up to our standards of human right and democracy.

[@elephantintheroom5678]

Sorry.

[@andrewearth469]

Who specifically has said someone has deserved a war crime because they "aren't up to our standards of human right and democracy?" That is ridiculous....

[@user-dz7cv3dt4t]

both parties are wrong and have a responsibility to apologise and investigate their own actions due to credible evidence, at least in Australia you can publically speak out and that's the truth

[@bashirzaid6971]

@@andrewearth469 LMAO ask any western to justify the invasion

[@bashirzaid6971]

@@user-dz7cv3dt4t It was leaked by a wistleblower not the Gov of Australia

[@rayshankarchandrasekaran8140]

Wow double standard 👏

[@berylthompson5281]

Australia I am ashamed of you! Just like what is happening to Assange.

[@satnamo]

This is American justice 🇺🇸 This is American democracy 🇺🇸

[@Cibimemes]

Bs it‘s military personal going rough…

[@user-dz7cv3dt4t]

what America and it's allies did is horrible and unjustified, but don't blame it on democracy, at least in a democracy you can urge your politicians to investigate their own war crimes

[@kerryf9399]

@@user-dz7cv3dt4t and exactly when has that ever happened? btw that poster was not blaming it on democracy, they were stating that this is called justice in so called democracies.

[@johnwayne8475]

​@@user-dz7cv3dt4tthere's no democracy, it's an illusion only, the government does what it wants to do, not what the people want, and they will hide what they don't want you to know.

[@ishaansharma654]

​@@user-dz7cv3dt4tafter a murder, let's ask the accused to collect evidence 😂

[@timcastle1844]

This is a major Australian disgrace. Neither major political Party has any backbone but will defend themselves and the status quo of corruption to the utmost.

[@zahidmasoodi4822]

and they labelled us as terrorists even they are terrorists in human appearance....

[@strayaDaz]

You are evil terrorists. Australia is not

[@racecar155]

Mc Bride should've gone to Al Jazeera instead of ABC, at least Al Jazeera would've done a better job reporting about the crimes committed by the ADF.

[@wati52]

That's for sure, just like this report, much better that the ABC. Seems like they are run by Murdoch now.

[@odeode4338]

Why? The reporting was done right and well. They just lost all credibility with what happened after, especially the documentary that aired around his sentencing depicting McBride as someone he’s not and putting themselves in the best light, which they should not be.

[@sajadhussain4732]

What war crimes, the colonial regimes cannot possibly commit such crimes or when they do they are justified. But..... when you put whistle blowers behind bars and the world is already aware of your crimes that puts you amongst the criminals covering up their crimes and thugs intimidating other to ever speak out. Also, war crimes in Iraq have never been truly punished in their full extent, no evidence of WMD was found but the so called alies were responsible for the death of a million iraqi men women and children. Those who waged war Bush, Blair are living their retirement which shows the double standard of our western society and government, everything brushed under the carpet , "we were given the worng information" was the only feedback, why dont you tell thay to the families of the ones you killed.

[@jimmychin9666]

The victors are never tried for war crimes.

[@akeel6328]

Savages.

[@TazImahc]

Where did you think the kangaroo court comes from?

[@NeoFreshair]

Australia is a colony of the US, and Australian authorities will have to obey US orders ..... There are similarities between authoritarianism in the US and Australia ....

[@johnwayne8475]

As an Australian, I am ashamed and disgusted about what's happening. I'm even more disgusted that the Australian press has largely ignored this news. So much for democracy and freedom of speech, media companies have their own agenda and informs what they want you to know, not to inform you about what's really going on. Al Jazeera is one of the few media channels broadcasting this.

[@nawazishkhan2080]

Hypocrisy of inhuman west

[@ARima-Sarima]

We need the USA and UK army personnel to start speaking the truth and not keep silent to the war crimes committed in Afghan and IRAQ

[@NeoFreshair]

The whistleblower humiliated Australian special forces from being best special forces into lying cowards who targeted civilians and never got near tali ban 😂

[@muntjunk-plk3171]

They got plenty of Taliban left there bodies everywhere

[@tahmeedrahman3101]

Shame on Australia.

[@sayednasrat2494]

I have lost extended family in Soviet Union war,civil war, NATO and US war, my heart is broken.

[@ianjco60]

If we do not hold ourselves in battle to a admittedly difficult better standard than the fundamentals of the enemy then we have no moral high ground anymore.

[@justadam1917]

Thank you we'll said I believe this in my heart

[@seekadv8066]

Went there illegally. Never had the moral high ground.

[@johnwayne8475]

Moral high ground? You know that WMDs were just a lie don't you? They didn't invade Iraq to look for terrorists, it was for political reasons to secure oil for America.

[@williamconnell9820]

Thank you for properly covering this. Australia media wont

[@MrOptimusheath]

welcome to Australia land of the prisoners

[@miloslavski6149]

that's why all afghans are trying to get there

[@Krkak4985]

@@miloslavski6149 Where did you get that info? The American puppet Afghans left the country the day Taliban took over. And thats that.

[@XODUS.0]

​@@miloslavski6149 fool

[@LittlePenguin1-17]

An example of what happens when you take away accountability from public and draft legislation preventing and prosecuting accountability.

[@ChadLady-he9ik]

Truth comes out eventually no matter how hard they try to suppress it . Those innocents are gone and the others living lifelong trauma.........it is honestly a mercy to believe in the afterlife

[@Goremize]

What this is setting up and telling us, is that some people are allowed to commit crimes, and revealing those crimes puts you in jail instead.

[@fgvevdbcbvng]

Thanks for letting us know... Great Guy 👍🏻👍🏻

[@berlynify]

.. ironically, because of this kind of illegal behaviour (on the part of the Aussie soldiers in Afghanistan..& let's face it, it's the kind of behaviour all soldiers, whoever's army it is, get up to)..I don't feel safe - there's nothing to keep them from behaving this way towards anyone, including Australian citizens, in a time of war/aggression on "Australian" soil. Same reason don't feel safe with police officers..who's "policing the police"?

[@eqbalali8774]

Same on Australia army

[@elephantintheroom5678]

And justice system.

[@johnwayne8475]

Australian justice system? Please don't get me started, everyday an indigenous person dies in Australian gaols or un the hands of the police. And just another thing, have you noticed none of the major news and media channels have broadcasted this? Don't talk about justice.

[@elephantintheroom5678]

@@johnwayne8475 You may as well call it the Australian Injustice System when discussing Aborigines.

[@brock2364]

@@johnwayne8475 every day ? Bs you mean every once a year . If australia is so bad why does every refugee and his dog want to come here ? Ever ask yourself those questions? It’s almost like it isn’t bad at all

[@skytechandgizmosmartinez7914]

No such thing as democracy really....."Sensitive to whom? the criminal or the people?

[@cresent1]

This is real face of democracy and hypocrisy

[@happykitten5695]

release "him". free "him". 🙏🕊❤‍🔥

[@noahm]

And if he committed them, he would be out of jail and have a medal around his neck.

[@murdoc6842]

War criminals

[@user-rf6ie8hq8i]

As an afghan 🇦🇫thanks algazeera Nowadays the media that say some truth is algazeera. There are hundreds of incidents that not only Australia but all nato members are committed to war crimes in Afghanistan especially USA🇺🇸 We urge to investigate all the incidents and make them accountable for their evil actions in Afghanistan 🇦🇫

[@mrdeanvincent]

I'm Australian and I agree with you. What happened in Afghanistan and Iraq (and other places) was absolutely shameful. Far too many evil deeds have gone unpunished. There are war criminals walking free and they must be brought to justice.

[@hogman3543]

Then they complain about why they come to their country's

[@ceeemm1901]

“In a time of deceit telling the truth is a revolutionary act.”

[@twilliams2558]

Al Jazeera reporting on this before most Australian outlets

[@jemhoare2105]

McBride is the only real man in our mining colony.

[@sarahuchoa4018]

I just can't believe this is even possible. My brain is trying to convince me that this is an elaborate prank so I don't surrender to alcoholism.

[@zmarghardes6801]

as an Afghan we will never forgive or forget

[@vsd1988]

we are living in a world where the ppl who don't nothing wrong go to jail & where the people that do everything wrong do not go to jail....

[@pinkdiamonds9137]

This man makes me proud to be Australian. The Australian government makes me ashamed! May Allah curse every evil person involved in this criminal miscarriage of justice!!

[@Roger-go6jc]

The Whistleblower has done what we ask of us all- to be honest, honourable and dependable. This is what our parents teach us. Now he is in jail for doing what we all aspire to. The wrong people are in jail. Those that would put this man in jail are scum. I will never vote liberal/ labor again in my life.

[@mikebarton]

Australia is broken.

[@williamtayor9530]

It's travesty of justice for those innocent people degraded and murdered and for this courageous man who blew the whistle on these war crimes. He is the one paying the price whilst the murderers go unpunished... totaly disgusted by this.

[@Jannfndnanakid]

He has a criminal charge for betraying his oath to his country, it's pretty simple

[@shah0110]

Superbly presented

[@NORKIE]

ill never trust my countries military ever again for this one.

[@WarmSnickerdoodle]

Not All Hero’s Wear Capes 🤘🏻

[@md.mahmudulhasankanon3991]

Hail free speech.

[@frost8930]

what do you expect from a country of convicts

[@aberaham9514]

it is very unfortunate but what alot of people dont releise is that he actally didnt say anything about the war crimes for a long long time.

[@Pashtun.Taraki]

This is just example in 20 years of brutal occupation on Afghanistan🇦🇫 . more then 5 million people died in this 20 years. Unfortunately no justice. No court no evidence. So practically for world nothing happened!

[@elephantintheroom5678]

If it's against humane laws it should be exposed and justly punished! None of this is humane or just. What is wrong with the justice system here in Australia?

[@Jack-gn4gl]

It's government appointed for a start and some are part the 28 high profile Australians named in "disturbing " police reports

[@tokyukvitz88]

Are convicts still in control of australia? No wonder.... 😢

[@mrdeanvincent]

Not convicts, but criminals for sure.

[@jaywalks9918]

It’s worse. During the trial the Australian military stated that they can order soldiers to kill civilians and the soldiers must comply.

[@anitacohen8753]

No point being a whistleblower in Australia. I was, I got attacked by the people I was trying to help. The system (and unions) will see you are disadvantaged throughout the nation. Avoid doing the right thing. It will lead to despair.

[@wawaweewa9159]

Not a surprise.

[@99gpandy28]

Don't judge our soldiers, Look at the rest of the world our soldiers are saints !

[@260bossute]

Welcome to corrupt australia..

[@mwalimuhammade7379]

it was happening every day from theire side in our country, this one day example.

[@KryCaNe]

We never expected a Labor government to be this hollow and without substance. We thought they’d behave differently to the previous lot. If you look at our A-G’s hypocrisy after passing whistleblower reforms at the end of 2022. Will you be addressing what Senator Payman is enduring after speaking up about Palestine?

[@tookyohead]

*Australian Army: “We hire you as a military lawyer, if you spot anything unlawful, do NOT tell us or you will be jailed.” Lol wtf Australia?

[@lisasteel6817]

And the broadcaster subsequently ran a BS hit piece on David McBride. For “some reason”.

[@KryCaNe]

Ah, Richard Marles.

[@G30RG3KA]

just know you live in a "democracy". "DEMOCRACY" not DICTATORSHIP.

[@chipe123o4]

This should open up investigations into what other forces did in Afghanistan.

[@Krypt0Nu11]

''Everybody knows that the dice are loaded''.

[@elephantintheroom5678]

Leonard Cohen.

[@batahmuddas429]

Australia justice system.

[@JamoRox75]

thankful the Taliban never committed any war crimes

[@miladinperic837]

Australian justice

[@KingstonShredMaster]

Interesting

[@anthonyfoott4890]

Snitch....

[@ahmedabdelazim7110]

Charged or not. Allah’s punishment is severe.

[@TalismancerM]

Australian of the Year 2025 - David McBride

[@chrishill6276]

Dont believe these lies

[@Ballu12345]

Australia 🇦🇺 is shameful

[@markhill3858]

McBride will be prime minister :)

[@user-ny2en5og9p]

Free All the Journalist

[@eleghari]

...and Iraq...

[@adambailey8295]

Can you spell treason.......

[@moreplease998]

Tyranny, you mean

[@mdsiamshikdar]

Hypocrites Double Standards!

[@Taylor44555]

Australia is bad like my country, America . What is the best country to live???? I need to find someplace better

[@haseebahmed9577]

Hathi k daant khanay k aur dikhanay k aur. We have this saying in our part of the world, "an elephant has a tusk for show off and actual teeth inside to grind." The west champions for moral values, education for all humans and lectures third world countries, but when someone commits war crimes they do nothing.. I guess not so moral of the western countries to lecture others..

[@Quas..i]

So if you see someone get murdered/robbed/assaulted etc the courts want you to do nothing, not mention it and basically just move on with your day, don't even call the police to tell them about it. Okay got it! So if every aussie implements the courts philosophy into our day to day life how long until Australia is in martial law and complete collapse, I give it a year or 2.

[@TheAbeKane]

KZbin censorship is egregious

[@user-eh5bh8bo4o]

Actually these crimes were investigated by USA and what happened to the report only USA knows .

[@HistoryOfRevolutions]

Alhamdulilah americans were humiliated in Afghanistan and forced to flee

[@Teddy-wo5jy]

julian assange vibe Same thing soliders are never good in any country there should be no military

[@hulamrasol8987]

No surprise! They almost wiped the natives of Australia

[@getyaphinsup]

No they didn't. Less than 20 000 Aborigines are estimated to have died from colonialism. That's 10 times less than the brutal, Islamic occupation of West Papua.

[@Theartofemman]

Andrew Tate should react to this